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Stefan Noyce assault trial cancelled as court hears of road death

A HEARING has taken place to cancel a trial due to be held for a Wareham man killed in a collision this summer.

Stefan Noyce, 29, died on the South Causeway between Wareham and Stoborough in the early hours of June 16.

On Thursday at Winchester Crown Court, a judge heard that he had been accused of assault occasioning actual bodily harm alleged to have taken place on November 23 last year.

Dawn Hyland, acting for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “We have received notification that Mr Noyce, who was awaiting trial before this court, has in fact sadly passed away after receiving head injuries.

“A copy of his death certificate has been provided to the court.”

Judge Susan Evans said she had seen the death certificate, which confirmed that the trial could no longer take place.

Mr Noyce had been out in Wareham and was walking to Stoborough where he was staying with his grandmother, who has dementia, when he was involved in a collision with a white Mazda being driven by a woman from Poole.

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